PARIS - France held its breath Saturday on the eve of a presidential election that Socialist Francois Hollande was predicted to win despite incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy closing the gap after wooing the far-right. Political speeches and new opinion polls have been banned since a particularly ferocious ...

The Pakistani Taliban have vowed to resist until the last breath'' as security forces entered two militant-held towns and fought on the outskirts of a third in what could turn into bloody urban battles near the Afghan border. Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan made the defiant statements late Sunday ...